Flash fiction forward: 80 very short stories

Jumper down / Don Shea

The memory priest of the Creech people / Paul Theroux

Sashimi cashmere / Carolyn Forde

The Barbie birthday / Alison Townsend

Sweet sixteen / Gary D. Wilson

Before the bath / Ismail Kadaré

Baker's helper / Cynthia Anderson

Rumors of myself / Steve Almond

Mandela was late / Peter Mehlman

Sleeping / Katharine Weber

Traditional style Indian garage / Chrystos

How to set a house on fire / Stace Budzko

The jalalpeño contest / Ray Gonzalez

Currents / Hannah Bottomy

1951 / Richard Bausch

Bullet / Kim Church

Consuming the view / Luigi Malerba

The great open mouth anti-sadness / Ron Carlson

Things you should know / A.M. Homes

Rose / John Biguenet

Tiffany / Stacey Richter

The Fallguy's faith / Robert Coover

The cats in prison recreation hall / Lydia Davis

Level / Keith Scribner

Blind fish / Melanie Rae Thon

The voices in my head / Jack Handey

The old truth in Costa Rica / Lon Otto

Why you shouldn't have gone in the first place / Samantah Schoech

Mythologies / R.L. Futrell

Reviving pater / John Goulet

Bullhead / Leigh Allison Wilson

Accident / Dave Eggers

All girl band / Utahna Faith

I never looked / David Galef

Fab 4 / Jenny Hall

The Peterson fire / Barry Gifford

Words / John A. McCaffrey

The black city / Leonardo Alishan

Justice - a beginning / Grace Paley

That could have been you / Jim Heynen

The wallet / Andrew McCuiag

How to end up / Jennifer A. Howard

The orange / Benjamin Rosenbaum

21 / Jim Crace

Geometry can fail us / Barbara Jacksha

To reduce your likelihood of murder / Ander Monson

Oliver's evolution / John Updike

The doctor / Ann Hood

Crazy glue / Etgar Keret

Pledge drive / Patricia Marx

The handbag / Michael Augustin

A patriotic angel / Mark Budman

What were the white things? / Amy Hempel

Map of the lost world / James Tate

Bill / Dan Kaplan

The kettle / Eva Marie Ginsburg

Quill / Tony Earley

Nicaragua / Kirk Nesset

Parrot talk / Kit Coyne Irwin

I didn't do that / Tom Hazuka

What I know of your country / John Leary

The paperboy / Sherrie Flick

Birth / Robert Earle

Guidebook / Christophe Merrill

Test / G.A. Ingersoll

Drawer / Rick Moody

00:02:36:58 / Bayard Godsave

The good life / David Ryan

Fruit series / Opal Palmer Adisa

Initials etched on a dining room table, Lockeport, Nova Scotia / Peter Orner

Mr. Nikos Nikou / Ersi Sotiropoulos

Three soldiers / Bruce Holland Rogers

The mesmerist / Michael Knight

Toasters / Pamela Painter

Diagnostic drift / Michael Martone

You don't know anything / Kathleen Wheaton

Traveling alone / Rob Carney

The death of the short story / J. David Stevens.